Performing and Recording

Performing/Recording Experience
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Performing and Recording Experience

Performing Experience
See the Performing Archive page for a list of previous live performances.
  • {The Milling Gowns}< /b>: Acoustic Viola, 6-String Electric Violin + FX (2006+)
  • Sharon Crumrine: viola, octave viola, violin, string arrangments (2006+)
  • The Gobshites: 5-String Electric & Acoustic fiddle/vocals - Over 200 multi-set performances
    with this Irish Punk band all over New England, New York and down the East Coast. (2004-2008)
  • Los Hijos Unicos: Acoustic & 5-String Electric Fiddle (2006+)
  • The String Sluts: 5-String Electric Violin (2006+)
  • Reverse Polish Notation: Electric Violin and loopers (2004+)
  • Rev. Bob & the Darkness: 5-String Electric Violin (2006-2007)
  • Di eVano Latin Jazz String Quartet: Acoustic Viola (2006)
  • The Beau Roland Band: Acoustic Fiddle (2004-2005)
  • Ad Frank: 5-String Electric Violin & FX (2004)
  • Paula Kelley Orchestra: Acoustic Violin (2003-2004)
  • Jazz performances at private functions with the Garacci Group and others (2004+)
  • Guest Faculty member at the New School of Music, teaching improvisational playing (2005)

  • Performance Venues include: The Orpheum Theatre, The Paradise Rock Club, Johnny D's,
    Ryle's Jazz Club, The Middle East Down/Up/ZuZu, TT the Bear's, Harper's Ferry, Lizard Lounge,
    Toad, The Plough & Stars, Cantab Lounge,
    Sugarloaf Resort (ME), Connelly's (NYC), The Living Room (RI), Murphy's Law (GA)
Recording Experience
  • {The Milling Gowns}: Recording tracks and scoring string & woodwind parts for their upcoming CD Diving Bell Shallows
  • Sharon Crumrine: Viola 6-string violin on several 2007 tracks.
  • Big Amp Envy: recorded two tracks for their upcoming 2008 CD "Penance", and comp "New England Country For Life".
  • Rev. Bob & the Darkness: Recorded all tracks on the 2007 CD Gallows Hill with this Rhythm, Roots & Gothic Blues band.
  • The Gobshites: Composed and recorded fiddle tracks for twenty+ songs on 2007 Irish Punk albums Another Round and Get Bombed,
    and for another sixteen songs on their 2005 album When the Shite Hits the Fans
  • The Beau Roland Band: Composed and recorded fiddle tracks for seven songs on the alt-country album The Road to Wichita
  • Grubstake: Composed and recorded two violin tracks for this "swamp rock" band's 2004 CD Dynamite & Other Inventions
  • Paula Kelley: played acoustic violin in the PK Orchestra for the 2003 album The Trouble with Success or How you Fit into the World.
    The album has also been released in Europe by French distributor Polaris, and received a 3 1/2 star review in the French edition of Rolling Stone.
  • Jeff Washer: Composed and recorded violin tracks for the soft-rock song Tempted and other songs by this
    New Bedford songwriter on the album The Gift To Believe by Agatha's Memory). New recordings scheduled for Summer 2007.
  • Recorded violin phrases for use by a Boston-area Hip Hop producer.

Audio/Video Samples

Note: see MySpace for latest audio/video

Samples of my playing:

Modern Melodic Alt-Classical with pianist/composer Sharon Crumrine:

Melodramatic Dark Pop with {The Milling Gowns}

Rhythm, Roots & Gothic Blues from Rev. Bob & the Darkness:

Irish Punk from The Gobshites:

Latin Jazz with the Di eVano String Quartet:

Alt-Country from the Beau Roland Band:

Live Looping Violin Improv (recorded @ the Lizard Lounge December 2004):

Soft Rock:

Retro/baroque pop: A brief clip from the Paula Kelley CD (see above).

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Last updated 12-Feb-2008

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